Imagine this. You show up to a race, and it is mass start. But there are two categories: e-bikes (motor bicycles) and regular bicycles. You are on a regular bike, and while you are only racing other regular bikes, e-bikes are racing each other and you. Because no e-bike wants to get beat by a regular bike. The faster of …
women’s cycling
Hear Me Roar
I wrote a blog post for Nationals, but it was uninspired and boring. Instead, I want to take the time to highlight the last 3 races I have done (US Nationals, World Cup Fiuggi Regiune Lazio (Italy), and World Cup Hoogerheide (Netherlands)). They were 3 completely different courses that required totally different skill sets, yet my 3 weakest points determined …
Zonhoven, a Day in the Sand
Zonhoven. (with almost zero photos because I just can’t be bothered to take them myself, and no one else took any. I suck) I had my very first Belgian cyclocross experience, and it didn’t go terribly. Being my my first trip to Europe to race cross, I came in with no real expectations. My only goal was to get this …
Things are happening
You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers. Maybe you don’t have questions because it’s been so long since I’ve blogged that you don’t even KNOW what to ask. Well, I have you covered. I last left you talking about some races that I had been doing. An update there, I did only one more mountain bike race and a couple more …
A Little (or a lot) of Everything
It finally happened. Well, a lot of things finally happened. I did a mountain bike race! I did a UCI road race! I bought new shorts! (This is irrelevant but still important, because crack kills, and I felt I needed a third point.) Adding a new 4th point because it is literally taking me so long to get this blog …
Woodstock Firebelly
Following is an example of how to use only brute force, not any smarts whatsoever, in order to do fairly well at a road race. Warning: contains talk of poop and frustrations. Women’s Woodstock Cycling Grand Prix, aka, WWCGP. I have been meaning to do this race for the past 3 years (it has been around for 4 I think) …